CURTIS Davies brought Albion back down to reality today by insisting: "Our main focus remains promotion."

CURTIS Davies brought Albion back down to reality today by insisting: "Our main focus remains promotion."

The Baggies captain was pleased by Albion's efforts at the Riverside but maintained that the push for the Premiership remained the club's main aim.

Davies did not enjoy the best of afternoons, being sent off for two bookable offences and deemed as bringing down Yakubu for Middlesbrough's penalty.

The Baggies now find themselves in third following Blues win at Palace.

Even so Davies is enjoying Albion's exploits in the cup.

"When we came in we were asking what the league results were," said Davies. "Our main focus is to get promoted. We're not going to get under the illusion that we're going to win the FA Cup but we'd like to go as far as we can and possibly play at the new Wembley. We can only take one game at a time and see what happens.

"It is a concern because (Champions leaders) Derby have been knocked out and it's a situation where we're playing more games than them. But I wouldn't swap still being in the FA Cup for anything."

"It's good for us," he added. "I was confident going to Middlesbrough and so were all the lads because of the way we've been playing. I've always said I think we're a Premiership squad in the Championship. Hopefully if we can get back up next year we will have a good go at it.

"We went there confident we could win the game. We weren't under any illusion that because they are a Premiership team we were underdogs.

"We might have been underdogs in terms of the odds but we're doing well enough in our league to come to a place like this and win, especially with the way they performed against Bristol City.

"It will be a different game coming down to our place and it depends who fancies it on the day. If it goes all the way hopefully we're the fitter and we can come out on top.

"Our home form is quality and if we put out the same team and play in a similar way then I don't see why we can't win the game."